17 September, 2014

HUGE NEWS! I know a lot of you were keeping track of my journey through the Mancrusher Challenge! I apologize for not getting this sent out earlier but as soon as the challenge was over, I was leaving the country and completely forgot to update you all.

Anyway, I’ve got a big update but more on that in a second.

In the more than 2.5 years that I’ve been involved in training athletes I’ve had the pleasure to train a lot of different people. I’ve met a lot of different types of athletes and worked with people trying to obtain a lot of different goals.

The one thing they all had in common was that they decided that the status quo wasn’t enough for them. They decided that they wanted something greater than what they had and they went for it.

Unfortunately I’ve also had the opportunity to meet the other half. And it’s ugly.

I remember the prick who told me to give up. The people who thought competitive athletes were more important than people who were just trying to get in shape. And I remember the people who told me overweight women shouldn’t lift weights and should focus on cardio.

I know those people are in everyone’s lives in some form or another.

The friend that wants you to stay out late and drink even though you told them you had training in the morning.

The ones ordering shit food in front of you when you told them you were dialing in your nutrition.

When you said you wanted to start lifting weights they said it was dangerous.

When you said you wanted to start running they said it’d be too hard.

They are the ones who act like they have all the answers and are the first ones to say “I told you so” if you fail and the last ones to ever clap for you.

Well I’m here to tell you that those people don’t matter and what they think is worth about as much as a Canadian quarter in a Texas laundry mat.

I don’t care what your goals are.

If you want it, go fucking get it. If you want to lift weights I will teach you how. If you want to slim down I will give you the plan to do it.

I don’t care what your goal is because at the end of the day all goals are equal and if you need someone in your corner I will be there. Because I know what it’s like to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to chase down what you want. To put in the hours, the days, the months, and the years to get what you want. I know what it’s like to do that shit alone and how hard that can be. So if you need someone to be on your side, I’m here.

With that, I’m going to update you on the Mancrusher Challenge.

31 Days 900 Burpees 22 New Athletes

That means 22 of 31 days this month have had someone calling us at World’s Best Boot Camp North Metro or CrossFit Thornton and told us they wanted to change their lives. They were tired of where they were in life and in health and they wanted something better.